Employability Skills in Large Business Modules: Built-in or Bolted-on?

April Edwards, Confident FuturesStephen Robertson, Strategy, Operations & EconomicsJune 2015

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Trimester 1: 255 students in 10 tutorials

Trimester 2: 185 students in 8 tutorials

Help students to develop a wide range of relevant skills,

attributes and attitudes

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Performance Goal (%) Learning Goal (%+feedback)Dweck 2006

Feedback to the whole teamExplain the criteria

Ecclestone in Boud & Falchikov 2006

Long-term use of feedback for growth which helps develop better team skills.Falchikov in Boud & Falchikov 2006

Feedback from multiple sources.Students need to know how to use the feedback given.

Boud & Falchikov 2006

Feedback on feedback for the module delivery team.

Bain 2004

What we do is as important as what we say. We need to demonstrate openness.

Brookfield 1995

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Reference List

Bain, K. (2004) What The Best College Teachers Do (Kindle) Cambridge, MA. U.S.A.: Harvard University Press

Boud, D. & Falchikov, N. (Eds) (2007) Rethinking Assessment in Higher Education: Learning for the Longer Term (Kindle) : Routledge

Brookfield, S.D. (1995) Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (Kindle) San Francisco, CA. U.S.A.: Jossey-Bass

Dweck, C.S. (2012) Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential London, England: Robinson

Huxham, M. (2103) Making Feedback Work For You Workbook Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Napier